Beta Manual feedback

[lucky9]

Since you're bringing up a vanilla MX 14.x that's a good find.

I didn't have to specifically install kmenuedit. I did pretty much follow the protocol that joany put out. I also followed Danum's recent KDE post. I've found that I have to Unlock Widgets to have it available. Not sure that was always so.

But I've also added this and that along the way so it could have been connected as a dependency to something. Sometimes dependencies don't make a lot of sense. I know that having the Backports repository enabled has some problems for me at least. I've been told that I have broken packages. None appear if I ask Synaptic to show them. I resorted to aptitude -f install. It took several iterations to clear the 'broken packages'. But they did clear up.

[uncle mark]

I had just done a new, fresh install of MX-14.3, updated, installed KDE-Standard, and then did some basic tweaking and configuring based on Joany's tips and a few things that had been posted in the MX-KDE forum. The absence of the menu editor didn't seem to be addressed anywhere (that I saw, anyway).

I normally don't install MX for any of my "converts" -- for my users, a KDE desktop with all the tweaks and additions I was used to seeing in MEPIS has been best. That's what I'm hoping to achieve with this latest install.

[kmathern]

kmenuedit could probably be added to the FLL_PACKAGES section of the /usr/share/mx-packageinstaller/bm/WindowManager-kde4_standard.bm file

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$ FLL_PACKAGES=(
          kde-standard
          #kdm
          virtuoso-minimal
          kmenuedit
)

Are there any other KDE4 packages that should be installed?

[lucky9]

K3b has to be added, at least for me.

[Jerry3904]

Probably a good addition for anybody wanting to run KDE on MX.

[uncle mark]

What about kdm? Not necessary, but from a cosmetic standpoint...

[kmathern]

What about kdm? Not necessary, but from a cosmetic standpoint...

kdm is in the WindowManager-kde4_standard.bm file, but is commented out. I'm not exactly sure why.

[anticapitalista]

What about kdm? Not necessary, but from a cosmetic standpoint...

kdm is in the WindowManager-kde4_standard.bm file, but is commented out. I'm not exactly sure why.

Because user input is needed to select the default login manager, but it isn't (wasn't) showing up in the mx-packageinstaller 'screen'

[uncle mark]

Before we get scolded, this is moving away from feedback on the Manual.

Perhaps a new topic for KDE-Standard "enhancements" or some such for MX-15?

[Jerry3904]

Development note: all feedback up to this point has been taken into account in a new version (20150307) being uploaded now. Make sure to refresh the page and check to see the new version number.

I will close this thread and open a new one in a short while--thanks to every one for the terrific help!